Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-16
THE GOOD WORK.
The Record OF a Month Made by thu
Woman's Benevolent Association
OF Fort Worth.
The Secretary Asks the Benevolent to As
sist in Giving the Mission
Children q Dinner.

The Secretary Asks the Benevolent to As
sist in Giving the Mission
Children a Dinner.
The grand and noble work being done
by the ladies of this city is well told In
the following report:
With pleasure and sincere gratitude we
record The monthly report of the Woman's
Benevolent Association. AS the DAYS of
the month have rolled by the work of the
Institution has expanded and grown and
we have been enabled to extend help
ing hand to much larger num-
Der Of needy and suffering people
than during the previous months.
Our charitable record shows 800 meals
served to all classes of poor. Groceries,
clothing and medicine have been dis
tributed to twenty-five INDECENT persons.
One sick and dying woman was taken
from her home of poverty and suffering,
comfortably provided for, and furnished q
Christian burisl. She left one son, q boy
of thirteen, without relatives or friends.
He has been in the institution ever since
its organization, and by his good conduct
has won the esteem and confidence of the
1doiScs AhkOuSA InO VI
DR.. Johnson he has been placed
in the Wesleyan college for an education.
Employment has been found for six per-
sons. A meeting was called for the pur-
pose IF consulting with regard to q per-
maDent school-room and dormitory for
our boys. Many of our citizens respond
cd and gave us the privilege of securing
such room and twenty iron cots. They
y avn hnn has sod hrVf
yet received them. The association is
very much encouraged at our present
prospects, and looks forward with glad
anticipation to it's first celebration of
Christmas day.
The 18th of December has been chosen
by common consent by Christian nations
as the day to celebrate the most precious
gift of God to man, the natal day Of the
Incsrnate Infant Christ.
The star that rose and shed it's light
upon that sacred event has been shining
and growing brighter and more radiant,
until sinful man under It's blessed rays is
being redeemed, enlightened and purified.
Especially has childhood been immortal
zed, embalmed and made sacred
by this wonderful Christmas
gift. The purity, beauty and
innocence Of the child-life of our blessed
Lord has taught US the Importance and
sacredness of childhood, until the
best intellect and thought of the world
kneel at the sacred shrine of youth and
offer upon its altar their rsrest gifts. The
possibilities hidden in every child is Just
beginning to be understood and to de-
velop them at their best is becoming the
study of mankind. Our Savior when he
wished to set before the disciples model
of heavenly citizenship, set little
child in the midst OF them. Christmas
has come to be especially the children's
day, and it is rightly made q
day of Joy and gladness, every country
observing it according to their own Gus
toms, but the same thought of giving and
receiving shines through 1t all. The
yule log, the mistletoe bough and red
holly, the distended stockings hanging in
the chimney corner, the Santa Claus of
frost and snow, with icy locks and rein
deer sledge and the Christmas tree with
its lighted WaXen tapers filled with IN.
known yet expected gifts, all speak the
same loving thoughts of peace on earth
and goodwill toward all men.
AS another month has borne our Beney
olent Association well On to Christmas
time, the thought of what we should do
for the poor is pressing upon US. We
know that many happy homes shall be
glsddened with gifts of love, and many
tables shall be laden with plum buildings
and choice viands, and these things only
emphasize the thought, dear public, how
about the poor? Those who have not the
necessities Of life, to say nothing of
Christmas dinners? We are thinking of
our Mission school in the Third ward,
where s hundred come for Sunday
school instruction. May we not have
Christmas dinner for the poor children
of our mission? They are all learning
about the Stan of Bethlehem and of the
infant Christ, who said, "When thou
makest feast, call not thy friends nor
thy rich neighbors, lest they bid thee
again and recompense be made thee,
but call the poor, the MANNED, the lame
and the blind, for they cannot recon-
pense thee, but thou shall be recompens-
ed st the resurrection of the Just" Out
of this thought grew the Children's
Christmas Club of the city of Washing
ton. The plants and evergreens that
decorated the hall were sent from the |
White House; the President, the Chief |
Justice, philanthropists, the Marine Band, |
Punch and Judy and Santa Claus, ali |
came to see 500 poor children eat and |
laugh, and it was scene Of Joy and glad
ness. Let US have dinner for our poor
mission children on the Monday follow
ing Christmas, and il any of our citizens
will aid Us In this benevolence, please
send to the Benevolent rooms whatever
7ou have in your heart to do, and we will |
arrange for Christmas dinner at the
mission school, and all rejoice together.
The a let the holly red be hung,
And sweetest carols all be sung,
Y lille we with JOY remember them
The 1ourneyers to Bethlehem,
Who followed trusting from altar,
fhe guidance of that happy star,
hich marked the spot where Christ was horn
Long years ago on Christmas NON.
Respectfully,